In English, sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. Learn more about this structure and its components.

Subject, object and complement Many verbs need an object to make sense, eg ‘Ajay plays the piano ’.

English typically uses a strict SUBJECT VERB OBJECT (SVO) word order in simple sentences, as in Students (S) read (V) books (O). This SVO word order becomes altered in many other English sentence ...